CORDONES INDUSTRIALES

 BETWEEN MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP AND FACTORY SYSTEM Very rarely the relationships between architecture and popular manifestations have transcended beyond the physical or representative limits of a building. However, as a result of the political and economic role unleashed by the Industrial Revolution, an architectural program welcomed the popular desire to transcend these limits and take by storm what was presented there: a factory space for the creation of a new society. Since the mid-eighteenth century, the industrial architecture of manufacturing factories staged a new model of economic development for countries, characterizing the emergence of industrial powers as a new vector for the differentiation of development between them. Within this context, the transition from agrarian economies to other industrial ones was the subject of reflections and criticism of various natures. While on the one hand the challenges or consequences of this new model were debated,...

(Photograph of Armindo Cardoso, 1973. / Workers of the company Cobre Cerrillos located at Avenida Melipilla No. 6307, march with a sign that says: "Cordón Cerrillos" and another "Cobre Cerrillos Intervenida Presente") CHILE, OCTOBER 1972:  TAKE OVER THE FACTORY In reaction to the "1972 employers strike", many of the country's manufacturing industries were taken over by its workers. These actions sought to reverse the lockout promoted by businessmen and leaders of the truckers' union who, in opposition to the government of the Popular Unity of Salvador Allende, coordinated a national stoppage of their activities in early October 1972, seeking to destabilize the distribution chains of food and the operation of factories within cities, increasing the atmosphere of political crisis that in those days polarized the country's population. Many factory workers did not stop their daily activities. On the contrary, they undertook a coordinated...